Rachel Maddow And Fox News: It’s Complicated

“Let the record show that I also had a really pleasant conversation with Roger Ailes at a Christmas party once, that I shook Bill O’Reilly’s hand at Terry McAuliffe’s book party, and that I’m 99 percent sure Glenn Beck passed me in a green Bentley once on the Merritt Parkway.”

— Rachel Maddow discusses her ‘relationship’ with FOX News with Politico.

See if you can keep up. This morning Howie Kurtz published an interview with Rachel Maddow in which she criticized Fox News saying: “For me it’s a question of whether you’re doing advocacy journalism or not. It’s not activism — you see a lot of that at Fox, using news coverage to inspire political participation.”

To which Fox responded: “These feelings that she experienced about Fox News didn’t stop her from applying for a job here.”

To which Maddow responded (to Politico): “I never personally applied for a job at Fox…I have an agent who I assume talks to everyone on my behalf, so I have no reason to believe that Fox’s claim that they were approached on my behalf is false, even if I never knew anything about it at the time.” Followed by the quote above (next time let’s hope one of them snaps a picture).

To which an FNC spokesperson tells Mediaite: “We find it entertaining that Rachel would implicate herself further on this matter and validate our original comment to Howie Kurtz.”

To which I (non-sequiturally) say: Someone should really give Maddow the anchor spot at Meet the Press.